26 May
2025
26 May
'25
5:20 p.m.
May 26, 2025 11:57:18 Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com>:
It's like Wikipedia.
No, Wikipedia has (at least historically) human editors who supposedly have some knowledge
of reality and history.
An LLM response is going to be a series of tokens predicted based on probabilities from
its training data. The output may correspond to a ground truth in the real world, but only
because it was trained on data which contained that ground truth.
Assuming the sources it cites are real works, it seems fine as a search engine, but the
text that it outputs should absolutely not be thought of as something arrived at by
similar means as text produced by supposedly knowledgeable and well-intentioned humans.